1.   -- Making a ritual of drinking before, with or after dinner and getting upset when this routine is disturbed.

2.   Generation X may not make old-fashioned rituals like spring cleaning into the top-to-bottom ordeals they once were.

3.   It was a favorite of James Beard, who lived nearby and made a ritual of dining at the restaurant on Christmas Eve.

4.   Some Woodstockers had made a ritual of going to the meadow to greet the full moon.

5.   The other Nets made a ritual of missing open jump shots that Marbury had created for them.

6.   The players seemed to instinctively select him, even last year, when they made a ritual of touching him with their sticks before the opening faceoff.